The BBC does an expose on a man they call Gaza’s smuggling-tunnel millionaire For at least five years, this place has been a smugglers’ paradise. The soft desert sand on which the town sits is riddled with tunnels into Egypt. If you could take a slice of the ground under Rafah you would find it … Continue reading Gaza Millionaires
The Associated Press says thieves have robbed a police station in Carletonville, west of Johannesburg, South Africa, leaving nothing behind “It’s a very bizarre situation,” [Democratic Alliance] police spokeswoman Dianne Kohler Barnard told AFP. “We have a police station being robbed of everything. Stripped. It’s more than robbed. It’s absolutely gutted.” She said the thieves … Continue reading Police Station Robbed
Bottled water in America is big business. Two years ago a quarter of the world’s bottled water was sold in the US for over $12 billion. Some might say that two years is all water can last, judging by the expiration date printed on the bottle. Sadly, the expiration date was printed on water bottles … Continue reading Expiration Dates and Water
Krebs on Security starts off with an interesting article on how an ATM Skimmer Transmits Stolen Data Via Text Message. The focus of the article then derails into a tangent about a pencil in one of the photos: The markings on the pencil show it to be a “Koh-I-Noor” drafting pencil, a brand of writing … Continue reading ATM Skimming and Pencils